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Genesis 22:9

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9 And they came to the place which God had told him of. And Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

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Arcana Coelestia #2774

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2774. 'Isaac' means the essential nature of that Rational, namely that it is good wedded to truth, and truth to good - such being the Divine Marriage that exists within the Lord's Human. This is clear from the naming of Isaac dealt with above at Chapter 21:6-7.

  
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